Capacitive fringing field sensors in printed circuit board technology

2010 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 970-974

  Dean, Robert N ^a   Rane, Aditi ^a   Baginski, Michael ^a   Hartzog, Zane ^a   Elton, David J ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fringing field capacitance; Interdigitated electrodes; Printed circuit board; Sensor

Indexed keywords

CU FOIL; FRINGING FIELD CAPACITANCE; FRINGING FIELDS; INTER-DIGITATED ELECTRODES; PRESENCE OF WATER; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD TECHNOLOGY; PROTOTYPE SENSOR; SENSOR ARCHITECTURES; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOLDER MASK; WATER DETECTION;

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRODES; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; METAL CLADDING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; TECHNOLOGY; WATER CONTENT;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 77957842291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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